Beth Shelburne
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Journalist, writer, investigative reporter, podcaster. Heart attack survivor, pal to assorted humans. Mostly brave except with roaches.
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2 weeks ago |
alabamareflector.com | Beth Shelburne
Note: This story contains a discussion of sexual assault. Since 2020, Alabama has paid settlements in at least 124 lawsuits filed against correctional officers in the state’s overcrowded and violent prison system. But the legal bills for defending the officers have far outpaced what incarcerated people and their families have received in settlements.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Beth Shelburne
A review of data obtained from the state Department of Finance on yearly transactions from the General Liability Trust Fund between 2020 and 2024 found legal expenses associated with defending Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officers accused of excessive force and failure to protect prisoners from harm or death amounted to $12.9 million, almost triple the settlements paid to inmates or their families.
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2 weeks ago |
alabamareflector.com | Beth Shelburne
Note: This story contains a discussion of sexual assault. Since 2020, Alabama has paid settlements in at least 124 lawsuits filed against correctional officers in the state’s overcrowded and violent prison system. But the legal bills for defending the officers have far outpaced what incarcerated people and their families have received in settlements. A review […] He said a group of correctional officers beat him in a prison barbershop. The officers said it never happened.
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2 weeks ago |
alabamareflector.com | Beth Shelburne
He said a group of correctional officers beat him in a prison barbershop. The officers said it never happened. But despite continued denials the officers used excessive force, the state agreed to pay $140,000 to a man formerly incarcerated at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent who sued the officers after he suffered a broken hip in 2018. The officer identified as the primary aggressor in the complaint has been named in half a dozen excessive force lawsuits filed by incarcerated men in Alabama.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Beth Shelburne
A lawsuit filed by Koty Williams, a former Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) inmate, is one of 30 civil rights complaints settled by ADOC in 2023 involving payments to plaintiffs totaling $929,110. The vast majority of the lawsuits, 26 out of 30, were filed over claims of excessive force by officers inside Alabama’s overcrowded and violent prisons. (Alex Cochran for Alabama Reflector)He said a group of correctional officers beat him in a prison barbershop.
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